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BREAKING NEWS: Man injures seven Swiss train passengers including a six-year-old child when he sets carriage on fire and goes on a knife rampage

Saturday, August 13, 2016

By Paul Martin

Swiss police confirm seven people have been injured after attack on train
A man reportedly assaulted passengers with ‘fire and a knife’
Officers confirmed the 27-year-old offender stabbed a child, six
Swiss Interior Minister ‘holding emergency meeting’ over incident

Seven people have been injured after a man attacked passengers on a train in Switzerland with ‘fire and a knife’.

Swiss police have confirmed the train has been sealed off an it is understood the county’s interior minister is holding an emergency meeting over the incident.

The man set the train carriage on fire using a flammable liquid and also stabbed passengers, including a six-year-old child, police said.

The offender, a 27-year-old Swiss citizen, carried out the attack on a train travelling in Switzerland’s far east, along its border with Liechtenstein, and was also injured, regional police in St Gallen said in a statement.

It is the latest in a series of similar attacks in Europe over the past month, including a 17-year-old injuring five people with an axe and knife on a train in Wuerzburg, Germany, in July.